Book Description

Practical Cassandra is the first hands-on
developer’s guide to building Cassandra systems and
applications that deliver breakthrough speed, scalability,
reliability, and performance. Fully up to date, it reflects the
latest versions of Cassandra–including Cassandra Query
Language (CQL), which dramatically lowers the learning curve for
Cassandra developers.

Pioneering Cassandra developers and Datastax MVPs Russell
Bradberry and Eric Lubow walk you through every step of building a
real production application that can store enormous amounts of
structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. Drawing on
their exceptional expertise, Bradberry and Lubow share practical
insights into issues ranging from querying to deployment,
management, maintenance, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

The authors cover key issues, from architecture to migration,
and guide you through crucial decisions about configuration and
data modeling. They provide tested sample code, detailed
explanations of how Cassandra works ”under the covers,”
and new case studies from three cutting-edge users: Ooyala, Hailo,
and eBay.